Commercial baby food commonly contains lead exceeding federal limits

Evidence

When the Environmental Defense Fund analyzed eleven years of federal data, it detected lead in 2,164 baby-food samples—from grape and apple juice to carrots, teething biscuits, and sweet potatoes. One of every four apple and grape juice samples exceeded federal lead limits of 5 ppb. — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 675

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 675
• XREF: connects to: Foods labeled ‘generally recognized as safe’ are often never actually tested for safety — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1093; Lead poisoning costs the US billions of dollars and millions of IQ points yearly — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 37